ineffectualdemon:

cowardlycopycat:

thinkphrontistery:

disease-danger-darkness-silence:

I haven’t seen this on tumblr, and I feel like it needs to be said.

We already ask too much of our teachers. Why are we expecting them to give their lives now?

As someone who works in the schools, I want to stress how important this is. I work with 11-14 year olds, and after Parkland a girl asked me what I would do. And I looked at their faces. I adore my kids, even the ones who make me want to pull the hair out of my head. And I was hit with this wave of love. Your kids come to school and you trust me with them, and in return I give them all of my love and respect and I care about every kid that walks through my door. And that’s when I knew I would die for them. Because if it saves even one of those precious kids it will have been worth it.

People that are so pro-gun give me chills because I have nightmares about a shooting happening at my school. I cant imagine my kids walking into class and seeing an empty desk and knowing that they won’t be back. I’m crying right now thinking about that. I dont particularly care what people do in their free time but are guns worth the lives of kids? Because that’s the question our nation is trying to answer. Personally, I think the answer should be obvious. Why isnt the answer obvious?

Tldr: I would quite literally die to protect my students. This is a political topic that gets me so emotional I nearly cry every time its discussed. The lives of children will always be more important than guns.

You know what I hate? When people who are pro-guns bring up the rise in stabbings in countries that have banned guns. Do you know how many people a lunatic with a gun can take down before the police arrive? A hell of a lot, especially since american police aren’t exactly the fastest people to take action in an emergency. A lunatic with a knife can take down a lot less people, and its a lot easier to stop them since knives are close range weapons. Its not exactly hard to come to this conclusion, they’re just trying to come up with halfassed excuses so they can keep their toys

you could conceivably outrun a person trying to kill you with a knife.

Not really possible to outrun a fucking bullet if you are neither Superman nor the Flash